carve
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carve
- /kɑɹv/ US
- /kɑːv/ UK
Sounds like calve (Received Pronunciation) · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)v
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kerbaną
Proto-West Germanic *kerban
Old English ċeorfan
Middle English kerven
English carve
From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).
verb carves · carving · carved · carven
- To cut. My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure, / My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure.
- To cut meat in order to serve it. You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices. to carve a name into a tree
- To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
noun carves
- A carucate. ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...
- The act of carving Give that turkey a careful carve.
